Stereotypes And Music, Has anyone had a bad experience? |
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Dec 13 2007, 03:08 AM |
Man, im glad you showed them up, way to go!
As for similar story's.... _ _ _ _ Well a few months ago, a kid brought in his guitar and amp to class was playing, last day before thanksgiving break, teacher didnt care. I was being polite to him, commented on how i liked his gear and walked away. As i was finishing up some random drawing. and i heard him mention something about on how a Metallica song was played (He was debating with a friend over a certain riff, the master of puupets one), all i said was "Thats the right way, except the riff isn't two open pedaled notes, it goes from an open E to F, fret 0 to 1 as the two palm muted notes in the riff instead of two open notes" I said it politely, and the kid says, "Shut up, what the hell do you know, you listen to that Cannibal Corpse Sh**." (i was wearing my cannibal corpse t-shirt. Well, my first thought, was "Jesus what crawled up this kids ass and died?" , second thought was "Why the hell does everyone assume since i listen to death metal i have no taste in music? I listen stuff from SRV to Dying Fetus and everything in between. im always stereotyped as the no-talent-hack Death Metal kid at my school, and it pisses me off".....The kid said something else that pissed me off, about how i probably suck at guitar, so i said if he had any balls like a real man, he'd let me play his guitar.....So he did, and i dont wanna brag, but i embarrassed this kid BAD. Im not claiming to be the best, but i played the hardest song i could think of.....Necrophagist's "Foul Body Autopsy". After i finished the short 2 minutes or so song, everyone was laughing at him, and i just walked away and said nothing. PS The solo to that song, no i did not play it full speed Ive only got the rest of the song up to speed, the sweeps were played considerably slower. This post has been edited by The Uncreator: Dec 13 2007, 03:11 AM |
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Dec 13 2007, 03:12 AM |
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Dec 13 2007, 03:14 AM |
Idiocy is more common than carbon. Oh how true how true ! @ The Uncreator.....how could anyone argue metal with you?????????? That's just foolish and unwise. |
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Dec 13 2007, 03:24 AM |
Cost of Ownage - $0
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Dec 13 2007, 10:25 AM |
Superb reaction from you RokChik - don't get mad get even .
Sadly there are an awful lot of misogynists in the music industry - perhaps more then in many others, for some reason it seems to attract them. The upside is that not only are they stupid (and can only think with their proverbials) but more often then not are talentless wannabies. It's an industry that, imo, too often sets too much store on appearance and is too quick to stereotype. One experience of mine from the music industry - years ago I was in a band and we had an upcoming very brief slot on TV to play (ok mime) to our new record. TV director meets our manager just before shooting and they talk for a while. Our manager comes to us and tells us that the director doesn't want the keyboard player on stage for filming as, 'he's fat and scruffy and looks like s*** guys - you'll lose a lot of teenbopper sales.' We walked out of the studio and didn't play. Manager the next day told us to 'wise up boys if you want to sell records.' Me, the bass player and the keyboard player quit the group that day and went off and started another. Outside of the music industry I work in higher education in a university Business School. The previous head of School used to come in to work, pass me in the corridor but would never say hello. One day he stopped me and wished me a good morning. I thought it was strange and asked a friend why. 'XX - the Dean- thought you were a student because of the way you dress and because you have long hair. He saw your latest book and asked YY who the author was and you were pointed out. Now he knows you're staff.' I have long hair and wear jeans and usually a t shirt, very often a band one - my new Dean hates this, she particularly hates my Carcass T-Shirt . This in a School where the other academics tend to power dress in suits. They all do these clever lectures based on Powerpoint slides full of little bullet points. I go in, sit on a desk and talk, write on the board and debate things with the students. One of my Masters graduates summed up his reaction to the difference here - 'They look the business but know nothing. You may be scruffy but I don't care as when you speak you know the business.' So again well done and kudos Rokchik and Uncreator- you handled the jerks in the best way possible, shouldn't matter what your gender is, what you look like, what you wear, just 'Shut up and play yer guitar' (Zappa again ) Cheers, Tony -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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